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On Thursday, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Donald Trump’s claim that the Presidential Records Act protects him from prosecution for taking government documents when he left office in 2021. The move came after special counsel Jack Smith submitted an emphatic response telling Cannon that her proposed jury instructions — that would direct jurors to consider that classified documents in the case could be considered personal property of Trump under the PRA — were unacceptable. Legal analysts pointed out that while the filing deals with the PRA argument, it doesn’t fully address the matter. Want mor…

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